Storytelling
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.64 (664 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000C4SSLW |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 67 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Perhaps the funniest thing about Storytelling is how Solondz anticipates every possible objection to his work and explicitly responds within the context of the stories." --Todd McCarthy, Variety. "Dark, antisocial, amusing and mean-spirited cleverly written and always engaging
Evolving Knowledge said This is not a book about screenwriting or storytelling. This is from the back cover, "[Todd Solodnz] offers two separate stories ('Fiction' and 'Non-Fiction') that unfold amid the sadly comical terrain of college and high school. In the first, a young female student has a stranger-than-fiction sexual encounter with her creative writing tutor. In the second, a struggling documentarian sets out to faithfully . Oy vey, the schmucks abound! William T. Heard Woops, look like Mr. "I'm not a college bound high school senior" should've done a little more research into his purchase. Actually, if he had READ the book instead of passing on, he might've gotten a better lesson in screenwriting than any Syd Field or Michael Hague book can provide. If you want to write screenplays, read screenplays; and you can't go
The film is in two parts: "Fiction" deals with the relationship between students and their black teacher in a college creative writing class while hammering away in decidedly non-PC fashion at the most sensitive social and political concerns of our time: race, sex, prejudice against the disabled. "Nonfiction" follows the attempts of an underachieving documentary filmmaker to capture the day-to-day life of an underachieving high-school student and his family--with surprisingly horrifying results.The film--which stars John Goodman and Julie Hagerty as the parents in the second part of the movie--caused something of a sensation when it was first shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2001. As in his earlier screenplays, Todd Solondz peers deeply into the underside of American suburban life and concerns in Storytelling, with sometimes shocking, sometimes hilarious, results.